HC Deb 28 July 1937 vol 326 c3112W
Miss Horsbrugh

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether, in all contracts placed by his Department for jute goods, it is stipulated that the goods must be of United Kingdom manufacture; and whether the definition of such manufacture is identical with that included in all our trade agreements with foreign countries that the jute cloth is woven in the United Kingdom from yarn spun in the United Kingdom?

Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead

Air Ministry contracts for the supply of jute goods are placed for material manufactured in the United Kingdom, and contain a stipulation that the yarn used in manufacture shall have been spun in the United Kingdom.

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